Active Listening

by Helgesen, Marc; Brown, Steve; Smith, Dorolyn

• ISBN13: 9780521398862
• ISBN10: 052139886X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This book helps students listen for gist and specific information, to make inferences and to progress to content-based activities. The Teacher's Edition provides teaching suggestions, optional activities, listening scripts, and answer keys for the Student's Book.

Table of Contents

Plan of book 

iv

Authors' acknowledgments 

vi

Students' introduction 

vii

Teacher's introduction 

viii

BEFORE YOU BEGIN Getting ready to listen and learn 2

1 What do you say first? 

6

2 Sights and sounds 

9

3 Pirates and such 

12

4 Dating 

15

5 A broad view of health 

18

6 Advertising 

21

7 Superstitions 

24

8 Communication and culture 

27

9 People's best friends 

3

10 Mind your manners! 

3

11 Tales from the past 

3

12 Decisions, decisions 

39 13 Your type of personality 

42

14 You've got to have art. 

45

15 I wonder how that works. 

48

16 A matter of values 

51

17 Food for thought 

54

18 We mean business 

57

19 Everything we know is wrong. 

60

20 Poetry 

63 SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

Activation: A speaking and listening game 

66

World map 

68

Art and text credits 

70

Tapescript T1

Expansion activities A1